and that's a joke, if you didn't get the thoreauvian literary reference ...

if nothing else, sometimes it's nice to know that i'm not the only one living a life of 'quiet desperation' ...

anti-blog sentiments seem rife. well, i'll say this. my adopted grandfather kept a strict diary every day of his adult life. temperatures, weather most days. but some things stood out. like his sisters being flirted with ... by an individual who changed the course of history. archduke ferdnand. these unimportant personal anecdotes may mean nothing now, but ... remember that mice can roar. that recorded personal experience put a human face on what was 'just another name' in the history books for me. i'm sure archaeologists wish that the ancients had weblogged ... future cultural anthropologists [at least] will feel we are giving invaluable 'flavor' to this, the internet era.

nytimes: court allows arrest for minor violation. if the location of the incident is the lago vista i'm thinking of, on lake travis, then this is pretty egregious. it's an affluent residential development with narrower-than-standard roads, slow speed limits ... and only one exit road. i'm sure many people pop down to the store without their purses or wallets. arrest? overkill, even if the lady was screaming and yelling. let's hope this case isn't used as a baseline. there's too much search and seizure baggage tied to the legal term "arrest." i fear the old 'everyone's a criminal; you just have to look in the right places' routine.

i can't help thinking they should just let tim mcveigh rot in prison, a la rudolph hess and others in spandau. it would polarize those who would make him a martyr. i already foresee 'mcveigh execution videos' available on the net, in grainy mpeg.

70south left a note in my 'temp' discussion group. all the news about antarctica. and they use zope!

the albuquerque journal reports that estrogens, traces of *anti-depressants* are showing up in our water. mainly treated effluent, re-released into the watershed. you are what you eat. then you drink. yuck.